Canadian Amateur Summer Sports News
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Erica Wiebe of Ottawa, Ontario won the gold medal in the women’s 76 kilogram division at the Yasar Dogu Wrestling Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday. It was one of three medals won by Canadian women Read more
Team Canada came away with two bronze medals on Sunday in a Rowing World Cup in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Gabrielle Smith of Unionville, Ontario and Andrea Proske of Langley, British Columbia won the bronze medal in the women’s doubles sculls and Read more
Kelita Zupancic of Whitby, Ontario won the bronze medal in the women’s 70 kilogram division at a Judo Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary on Saturday. It was Zupancic’s 13th career Grand Prix medal. Zupancic now has one gold medal, four Read more
Team Canada has advanced to the 2020 Olympic Games in men’s rugby sevens. This will be the first time ever that the Canada has qualified in the Olympic Games in men’s rugby sevens after failing to qualify at the 2016 Olympic Read more
Team Canada had a marvelous weekend at the 2019 Montreal Grand Prix of Judo from Quebec. In all, Team Canada came away with nine medals (one gold medal, four silver medals and four bronze medals). Canada’s nine medals were tied Read more
Team Canada has won the gold medal in women’s beach volleyball at the 2019 World Championships in Hamburg, Germany. Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario and Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario became the first Canadians ever to win a medal at Read more
Brittany Crew of Mississauga, Ontario and Canadian Olympic silver medalist Andre De Grasse of Scarborough, Ontario each earned a medal on Friday at the Diamond League event in Lausanne, Switzerland. Crew won a silver medal in the women’s shot put and Read more
Team Canada is in the gold medal game of the 2019 Women’s World Beach Volleyball Championships in Hamburg, Germany.On Friday, Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario beat Marta Menegatti and Viktoria Orsi Toth of Italy Read more
Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ontario and Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto, Ontario are in the quarterfinals of the 2019 World Beach Volleyball Championships in Hamburg, Germany on Friday. Pavan and Humana-Paredes, who are the reigning Commonwealth Games champions, won two games Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Marnie McBean of Vancouver, British Columbia has been named Canada’s chef de mission for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. McBean won a gold medal in women’s pairs with Kathleen Heddle of Trail, British Columbia at the Read more